Want to know how to make some quick and easy home made, pretend role-play food from every day household items?
This post will show you how to make some fake Battenberg cake, pretend sponge cakes, fake ice cream, pretend spaghetti and meatballs, chips, crumpets and more....
Easy home-made pretend role-play food from every day items
Here is a quick video of how I made this pretend role play food:
Items you need to make pretend play food:
Glue gun - https://amzn.to/4bHuoZe
Felt sheets - https://amzn.to/42YrtYd
Yellow and pink sponge - https://amzn.to/4bGO67d
White and brown sponge - https://amzn.to/3uDAeKm
Sponge for crumpets - https://amzn.to/3OKtAsB
Thin sandwich sponge - https://amzn.to/49FvT87
Thick crumpet sponge - https://amzn.to/42Pjcpm
Vanilla and caramel ice cream pouff - https://amzn.to/3uBiA9Z
Ice cream pouffs - https://amzn.to/3weKkSe
Meatballs - https://amzn.to/49EVpL4
Cherries - https://amzn.to/3SF07S1
Spaghetti - https://amzn.to/48qhICR
Chips/fries sponge - https://amzn.to/3OKYEIG
Brown sharpie - https://amzn.to/3T136FC
Ice cream bowl and scoop - https://amzn.to/3UKobFQ
Once you have watched the video above, which demonstrates how to make the role play food, have a look at the following images for inspiration of how to set up your pretend play food.
We added ours to our Bettys role play cafe, which you can read more about here, along with some more step by step instructions of how to make felt fondant fancies and polymer clay cakes.
Cheese and ham sandwiches with chips, crumpets and spaghetti meatballs....
The bread is made from thin yellow sponge, the ham and cheese from felt. The crumpet is another type of sponge, akin to a sea sponge. The chips are a chopped up dish sponge. Spaghetti is cream coloured wool and meatballs are felt balls/pompoms.
Strawberry, vanilla and chocolate ice cream with sponge cakes and battenberg cake....
The sponge cakes are made from pink and yellow sponges, hot glued together with a red pompom cherry on top...
The battenberg cake is made from strips of pink and yellow sponge glued together with a glue gun, and a sheet of cream coloured felt glued around the outside for the marzipan...
The ice cream is made from pink, brown and cream coloured shower pouffs with the string removed...
The spaghetti is made from cream coloured wool and the meatballs are brown pompoms...
The chips are made from a chopped up yellow sponge...
The crumpets are made from a sponge with larger holes, cut into a circle shape and coloured on the underside with a brown sharpie...
Don't forget to check out my instagram page for more ideas and images.
More home made project ideas here:
PIN ME: